Chimney in the Round Room [graphic].

Description

Title: Chimney in the Round Room [graphic].
Contributor: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: A view of the chimney piece in the Round Room at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, shown with vases on the mantel and andirons
Description: Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 156 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.5 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 28.6 x 23.3 cm.
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Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.6 x 14.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Andirons
Chimneypieces
Mantels
Urns
Vases
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Andirons
Chimneypieces
Mantels
Urns
Vases
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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